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Facing the globalization, R & D institutions are required to master and develop a strong, modern, competitive, and efficient science and technology that can be applied by the business community to compete in the global economic system. Commercial and IPR-value superior technology are intellectual assets as well as business assets that need to be transferred to the business community and to be developed commercially, as the development of agribusiness needs capital driven and innovation in order to realize a competitive agriculture industry.

The development of R & D technology innovation results by the business world needs mechanism for the acquisition and technology transfer and management of intellectual property rights protection (IPR) from R & D institutions to industry, where R & D institutions is the center and source of technological innovation in agriculture, while industry is the plasma. Therefore the publication of "Law no. 18 year 2002 on the National System of Research, Development and Application of Science and Technology "and" Government Regulation no. 20 year 2005 on Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Research and Development of University and Institute for Research and Development "is a breath of fresh air for the world of research and the business community in Indonesia

In addition, Regulation No. 20/2005 states that in carrying out the obligations of intellectual property technology transfer of the R & D results, universities and R & D institutions must establish a work unit responsible for carrying out the management of technology transfer of intellectual property.

In the implementation of laws and regulations mentioned above, the Ministry of Agriculture through the Minister of Agriculture Regulation No. 49/2007 dated June 8, 2007 form the Technology Transfer Unit Manager within the structure of the Agency for Agricultural Research and Development Center Manager named Office for Agricultural Technology Transfer and IPR Management (IAARD Office for Technology Transfer).